Was purchasing an additional acreage that adjoins my land. The old guy next door contacted me and wanted to sell me 28.5 acres. I wrote a legal offer to purchase, he accepted. I assisted him by contacting the title company, survey company, the DNR for retracting it from MFL, and paid an attorney to write the offer. Then the other neighbor has a fit and says he has first rights to it because of something written 5 years ago when he bought some from the guy. The old guy wants to get out of the deal because he thinks the other guy has to buy it. I informed the old guy there is a legal process for right of first refusals and that if this guy wants anything other than the same amount of land and at least the same price he is not obligated to take it. I have not seen the actual wording of the FROR but he delivered it to the attorney that wrote my offer. Unfortunately this attorney has no time for any of this and keeps saying i should come and sit down and he will look at it after multiple times being informed I live 3 hours away. Yes this is a small redneck town and I know I may have to get an attorney where I live. I am about ready to throw in the towel and tell the old guy he owes me for my attorney fees to date and return my earnest money and walk away. Legally I can sue him for breach of contract because he should not have signed and taken my earnest money it in the first place, but I am not going there. I want to make sure this other guy who in the past told me he only wanted a 10 acre strip doesn't snowball the old guy into thinking he has a gun to his head.
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